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Google Hardware Makes Cuts to Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products

posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-programmers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb? dept.

Phoenix666 writes in with a story from Ars Technica:

A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as causing "roadmap cutbacks" and that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.

[...] Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month. The division is responsible for the Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, the Chromecast, Google Wi-Fi, and lately, the Nest smart home division.

Why is Google having a hard time cracking the hardware market?

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:17AM (2 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:17AM (#813996)

    I've actually been pretty happy with their hardware products. Pixel phones, Chromecasts, Chromebooks, Google home. They're all the best at what they do or close to it. The software and service side of things is a total clusterfuck. Google Plus, Allo, Duo, stuff in Google Suites not working with Google Assistant, etc. I had the "catch-all" bin of my suites email bouncing messages rather than forwarding them to an address. I would fucking *love* if their software and services were up to the quality of their hardware.

    I had a chat with my mom today, and she was having trouble with the iPad she got for Christmas, and setting something up in iTunes. Six different supposedly Apple users, and the online help couldn't make it work, until a friend got it set up for her.

    I think it's all a sign that the incompetent are taking over and driving us to Idiocracy.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:42AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:42AM (#814008) Homepage Journal

    The FAA grounded the 737 8 and 9.

    My reading of the preliminary investigations leads me to suggest it was a Software Problem [warplife.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:11AM (#814036)

    Software and services are going downhill. The use of H1B visa holders in software and services is going up.

    Correlation? Or is that one of those badthoughts I keep being yelled at for?